David Braddock, PhD
Professor Emeritis |  | | Phone | 303-492-0639 | | Fax | | | Email | David.Braddock@cu.edu | Bio
The Coleman Institute was created in 2001 from a major gift to CU from Bill and Claudia Coleman. The Institute’s mission is to catalyze and integrate advances in science, engineering, and technology to promote the quality of life and independent living of people with cognitive disabilities. The Institute, a component of the University of Colorado System, supports research and public service collaboration involving faculty of the four-campus CU System in Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Denver.
Dr. Braddock has contributed to cognitive disability research, public health and social policy for more than 35 years. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Government and a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Texas at Austin, and completed additional graduate work in the Graduate School of Business at the same institution. Braddock was at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from 1979-2001 as Professor of Human Development and Public Health, as the founding head of the Department of Disability and Human Development and of its research institute, and as an associate dean. He was instrumental in the establishment of the nation’s first Ph.D. program in disability studies at UIC. Prior to UIC, he held positions with the Council for Exceptional Children, the Secretary’s Committee on Mental Retardation in the U.S. Department of HEW, and with state developmental disabilities agencies in Texas, Missouri and Illinois.
Professor Braddock has over 200 publications and monographs in four areas: 1) the comparative study of the demography and financing of services to people with disabilities in the 50 American states; 2) long term care; 3) health promotion and disease prevention; and, 4) public policy toward people with disabilities. He has testified in congressional hearings on numerous occasions and in the legislatures of 12 states.
He received international Career research awards from the Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) of the United States (1987), the American Association on Mental Retardation (1998), and the University Scholar Award from the President of the University of Illinois (1998). Braddock is a former president of the American Association on Mental Retardation (1993-94) and a recipient of the ARC-United States Franklin Smith Award for Distinguished National Service to the Field of Mental Retardation (2000), the ARC’s highest honor. He edited the American Association on Mental Retardation’s Research Monographs and Book Publication Program during1997-2002 and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the International Special Olympics.
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